An employment sign is seen on the window of a department store on August 02, 2024 in New York City. Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images News | Getty Images Initial claims for unemployment insurance totaled less than expected last week, countering other signs that the labor market is weakening. First-time filings for jobless benefits … Read more
The Eli Lilly logo is shown on one of the company’s offices in San Diego, California, on Sept. 17, 2020. Mike Blake | Reuters Eli Lilly on Thursday reported second-quarter earnings and revenue that blew past expectations and hiked its full-year revenue outlook by $3 billion as sales of its blockbuster diabetes drug Mounjaro and … Read more
Autodesk president and CEO Andrew Anagnost in June 2017. CNBC Activist investor Starboard Value has been engaging with the board of Autodesk, continuing its push to improve the company’s operations and financial performance, according to a presentation viewed by CNBC. Starboard wants Autodesk’s board to reassess whether CEO Andrew Anagnost, who has helmed the software … Read more
Mary Daly, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, during the National Association of Business Economics (NABE) economic policy conference in Washington, DC, US, on Friday, Feb. 16, 2024. Graeme Sloan | Bloomberg | Getty Images San Francisco Federal Reserve President Mary Daly on Monday said she expects that interest rates will be … Read more
Michael Moritz, Sequoia Capital Scott Mlyn | CNBC As leading tech investors continue to vocally take sides ahead of the 2024 presidential election, legendary venture capitalist Michael Moritz is making his preference clear. In a Financial Times opinion piece published on Monday, Moritz wrote that those in the industry who are supporting Donald Trump “are … Read more
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during morning trading on July 31, 2024. Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images As U.S. markets opened for trading on Monday, tech’s mega-cap companies lost about $1 trillion in market cap, deepening a downturn that sent the Nasdaq into correction territory last week. Nvidia … Read more
An injection pen of Zepbound, Eli Lilly’s weight loss drug, is displayed in New York City, Dec. 11, 2023. Brendan McDermid | Reuters All doses of Eli Lilly’s highly popular weight loss injection Zepbound and diabetes drug Mounjaro are now available in the U.S., according to an update on the Food and Drug Administration’s drug … Read more
Job growth in the U.S. slowed much more than expected during July and the unemployment rate ticked higher, the Labor Department reported Friday. Nonfarm payrolls grew by just 114,000 for the month, down from the downwardly revised 179,000 in June and below the Dow Jones estimate for 185,000. The unemployment rate edged higher to 4.3%, … Read more
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell arrives to speak at a news conference following a Federal Open Market Committee meeting at the William McChesney Martin Jr. Federal Reserve Board Building on July 31, 2024 in Washington, DC. Andrew Harnik | Getty Images If the Federal Reserve is starting to set the table for interest rate reductions, … Read more
People line up as they wait for the JobNewsUSA.com South Florida Job Fair to open at the Amerant Bank Arena on June 26, 2024, in Sunrise, Florida. Joe Raedle | Getty Images The U.S. labor market may have cooled some in July, as a gradual slowdown in the economy and Hurricane Beryl are expected to … Read more
